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A free woman proved sometimes, the most American thing you can do is to escape tyranny
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, marked the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, with British troops and colonial militia clashing in Massachusetts, ultimately leading to a British retreat and a surge in colonial support for independence.